Is Europe’s colonial past genocidal?
STRUCTURE
An interview of academics for a-level students, narrator does definitions
DEFINITIONS
Colonialism- what were the colonies
Genocidal- Lemkin came up with the definition
Imperialism
Defining the period- from 1861 till 1991, we go till the fall of the
Soviet Union
WHAT ARE THE COLONIES?
South west Africa under Germany, Armenian Genocide under the Ottoman
Empire in 1915-17,
Indeed, it is easy to view German continental imperialism as
merely part of the grander European imperialist venture, with the
principles and methods used often appearing to be simply more
proximate versions of those used overseas. Enzo Traverso has
noted how the model was provided by overseas imperialism and
the methods of ‘deportation, dehumanization, and racial
extermination as undertaken by Hitler’s Germany are in line with
earlier ideas that were firmly anchored in the history of Western
imperialism’ (Traverso 2003: 73),
STRUCTURE
An interview of academics for a-level students, narrator does definitions
DEFINITIONS
Colonialism- what were the colonies
Genocidal- Lemkin came up with the definition
Imperialism
Defining the period- from 1861 till 1991, we go till the fall of the
Soviet Union
WHAT ARE THE COLONIES?
South west Africa under Germany, Armenian Genocide under the Ottoman
Empire in 1915-17,
Indeed, it is easy to view German continental imperialism as
merely part of the grander European imperialist venture, with the
principles and methods used often appearing to be simply more
proximate versions of those used overseas. Enzo Traverso has
noted how the model was provided by overseas imperialism and
the methods of ‘deportation, dehumanization, and racial
extermination as undertaken by Hitler’s Germany are in line with
earlier ideas that were firmly anchored in the history of Western
imperialism’ (Traverso 2003: 73),
